Doug Moe Rumors

As part of the 2016-17 home-opener festivities, the Denver Nuggets will retire former legend Dikembe Mutombo’s #55 jersey, President and Governor Josh Kroenke announced today. Mutombo was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in September 2015 and will become the fifth player and sixth representative in team history to have his number enshrined in the rafters. He joins fellow Nuggets greats Byron Beck (#40), Alex English (#2), Dan Issel (#44), David Thompson (#33) and Doug Moe, who coached the team to a franchise-record 432 wins. This will mark the first time that the Nuggets have retired a player’s number at Pepsi Center.

Moe is home in San Antonio and talking about how tough it is not to work. He and “Big Jane,” his wife, are embarking on a cruise this month. Then he’ll find time to come to Denver for a few days and watch the Nuggets. He can’t remember how or why he started calling people “stiffs.” It’s his trademark. “I call everybody a stiff,” Moe said. “I’m one, too.”